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The angel of the bottom-less pit (Rev. ix. 11). The Hebrew abad means “he perished.”
“The angell of the bottomlesse pytt, whose name in the hebrew tonge is Abadon.”—Tindale.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.